I am just a woman who works every day, who was ill and unable to work for over a year and a half, and am now trying to pay off medical bills, and still keep current with all the utilities, car payment etc. I had to use my credit cards to the max to pay some doctors or get sued. I have very good insurance but it did not cover all expenses added to the normal living expenses. I had a good case against the doctor for mal-practice but it seems in a small place everyone is good friends with each other and would not take the case. Then another attorney stated I had a case against the first attorney as he kept my files for 5 months and did nothing, then sent them back stating no way, but during the time he had my files the time had lasped so I am out in the cold on that one. I am listing to what both sides say and to me who cares what they said years ago, this is 2008 and one should make their decision on the person and not bring up things that at this time means nothing and there is nothing anyone can do about the old stuff. Get real. Live on my salary for a year and then see how they do paying ALL their bills on one pay check. Past presidents need to live off social security, we do not need to pay for secret service men/women to still guard them. If they invested wisely they would be well off. Just thoughts of what the real, REAL, world is like for a majority of the citizens.
FactChecking Debate No. 1
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In McCain's energy plan, he supports nuclear power and "clean" coal, which are alternative energies. But they don't qualify as renewable energy, such as hydro, solar and wind power. McCain's plan makes a vague promise to "rationalize the current patchwork of temporary tax credits that provide commercial feasibility." The experts we talked to weren't sure what exactly that meant.
Committee Oversight
Both candidates were right in talking about Obama's NATO subcommittee.
McCain: Senator Obama is the chairperson of a committee that oversights NATO, that's in Afghanistan. To this day he's never had a hearing. …
Obama: Look, the -- I'm very proud of my vice presidential selection, Joe Biden, who's the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And as he explains and as John well knows, the issues of Afghanistan, the issues of Iraq, critical issues like that don't go through my subcommittee because they're done as a committee as a whole.
As we've already reported Obama's subcommittee on European Affairs does have jurisdiction over NATO, which is supplying about half of the troops in Afghanistan. His subcommittee does not have jurisdiction over Afghanistan proper.
Getting the Dates Wrong
We also caught McCain getting his congressional history a little wrong.
McCain: Back in 1983, when I was a brand-new United States congressman,
the one -- the person I admired the most and still admire the most, Ronald
Reagan, wanted to send Marines into Lebanon. And I saw that, and I saw the
situation, and I stood up, and I voted against that because I was afraid
that they couldn't make peace in a place where 300 or 400 or several
hundred Marines would make a difference. Tragically, I was right: Nearly
300 Marines lost their lives in the bombing of the barracks.
This isn't quite right. Marines were initially deployed to Lebanon in August 1982. McCain, however, was not elected to the U.S. House until November 1982, more than three months after Marines had already landed.
McCain is referring to a 1983 vote to invoke the War Powers Act. That bill, which Ronald Reagan signed into law on October 12, 1983, authorized an 18-month deployment for the Marines. On October 13, a suicide bomber destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut. McCain did in fact break with most Republicans to vote against the bill.
Correction: We originally described the subcommittee as the "subcommittee on Afghanistan"; it is called the Subcommittee on European Affairs.
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